I repost here in full an article that has appeared in this week’s edition of The Jewish Chronicle Online.

“According to journalist Charles Moore, whose biography of Baroness Thatcher will be released only after her death, the former PM considered Jewish values and Conservatism ‘a natural fit’

“Her support for Jewish causes derived, he says, from her interactions as MP for Finchley with Jewish people.

“He also suggests that, as a Methodist, she drew her “raw political and social lessons from the Bible”, and emphasised the influence of Edith Muhlbauer, an Austrian Jewish teenager who, in 1938, stayed with the Roberts family in Grantham, after escaping Nazi persecution.

“’It had a significant impact,’ says Mr Moore. ’Edith was probably the first Jew she knew in the personal sense.’

Twenty years later, campaigning in Finchley, she infuriated local Conservatives by standing with the Liberals to… Read more